The target market is perhaps not the same but there is a huge overlap and I wonder how many people own a PSP and a DS.

Are you a fucking retard, Loneken? They're both fucking portable consoles, competing in the same market for the same audience; people who want to play games on the go. When one console outsells the other by over three times as much, then the sales mean something.

OF COURSE ITS CHEAPER!!! its a load of shit(the DS). the PSP is more for your money. and i have alot of people who agree with me(the ND staff).

Not even the balls to make you an account before insulting ... how smart you are "anonymous #17" :)

The DS is targeted at young people, or at very old people buying it for their grand-sons.
And what do you think these kind of people would buy ? the very expensive and pretty big console or the little cute one three time cheaper ?

If i can make a stupid comparison, if i follow your logic. Take a VW and a Mercedes, same purpose (riding), same target market (people with a driver license) but there is so many more VW than Mercedes...
Does that means people are crazy about VW ... noway, that means people don't have the money for a Mercedes.

(And yes, the prices are not in the same range, but they have pretty much the same ration DS/PSP VW/Merco)

P.S. : The next time, try to be polite, it never hurts, and people will take so much more seriously :)

Your comparison is flawed. You're comparing a car to a portable console, but what sells portable consoles? Say it with me, Loneken - that's right, games! The immense popularity of the NDS isn't so much reliant on its price, as it is on the amount of top games it has. Following from that, let's look at same of the best NDS titles that have been sold in Japan specifically. Nintendogs, Brain Training and Electroplankton have had phenomenal sales and guess what? It's because the aged 20+ (i.e. not the categories you mentioned) have gone ape shit over them.

The only reason I commented how much of a fucking retard you are is because you took superficial reasons like "DS is cheap = better sales" as opposed to more intelligent ones.